Saturday, September 15, 2012

So, I knocked out that hORKie the other week, and had a pretty good time doing it. That meant that I needed to paint more (and for myself). So I did!

I'm incredibly pleased with the way I paint Ork flesh. This time around, I tried to stick solely to the new Citadel paints; I had a lot more luck this time than I did when I tried converting my Empire paint scheme to them. I'll regurgitate my painting notes at the end of the post.

I really love these guys. They're so characterful. It makes me a little bummed that I've got a pile of Mantic Orcs; they're nice, but they just don't compare.

All in all, it took me about three weeks to knock these guys out. That sounds much, much worse than it really is, though: there was a lot of time in there that I couldn't paint, a lot of time waiting to pick up new paints, etc. They actually sat varnished but unbased for a week, because I couldn't decide how I wanted to base them: Dark, mid, light grey like my Dark Angels? Cryx Base, Cryx Highlight, Khaki like my Skaven (the best most awesome color set in the world)?

In the end, I decided to go with a Martian, red clay base, which didn't come out perfect... but came out okay enough.

Sigmar knows I've got a heap of more Boyz in the bitz closet: I certainly could paint more. For the time being, though, I think I'm going to stop at 10. I painted them for fun, and I'd just assume not turn a one-off project into a 180-model grind.

So, I knocked out that hORKie the other week, and had a pretty good time doing it. That meant that I needed to paint more (and for myself). So I did!

I'm incredibly pleased with the way I paint Ork flesh. This time around, I tried to stick solely to the new Citadel paints; I had a lot more luck this time than I did when I tried converting my Empire paint scheme to them. I'll regurgitate my painting notes at the end of the post.

I really love these guys. They're so characterful. It makes me a little bummed that I've got a pile of Mantic Orcs; they're nice, but they just don't compare.

All in all, it took me about three weeks to knock these guys out. That sounds much, much worse than it really is, though: there was a lot of time in there that I couldn't paint, a lot of time waiting to pick up new paints, etc. They actually sat varnished but unbased for a week, because I couldn't decide how I wanted to base them: Dark, mid, light grey like my Dark Angels? Cryx Base, Cryx Highlight, Khaki like my Skaven (the best most awesome color set in the world)?

In the end, I decided to go with a Martian, red clay base, which didn't come out perfect... but came out okay enough.

Sigmar knows I've got a heap of more Boyz in the bitz closet: I certainly could paint more. For the time being, though, I think I'm going to stop at 10. I painted them for fun, and I'd just assume not turn a one-off project into a 180-model grind.